“I look out at the weather station below and my heart contracts. I watch as somebody staggers out of the doorway of the Carpenter’s Arms, stumbling forwards into the rain” As I do so the brilliant lightning fades, but there is a new soft light, a long triangle of light, stretching in the way of the horse. I watch the weather-crazed animal, unleashed from its flailing, broken buggy, galloping towards the hostelry. It is as if time slows, as if the gaps between the hollow ticks from the old clock have widened. ‘But I know that he is busy and has much work to do…’ He likes to be on his own, I think.’ I gaze out over the river and watch a couple of birds swooping high on the breeze. He is older than me, and I sometimes feel he is not interested in what I have to say. “I do wish that Geoffrey and I had more fun together. It is not allowed – tradition dictates that it has to be in a different bed.'” “One night when we were lying in our bed, Geoffrey had told me of the old belief: ‘Our baby cannot be born in the bed that he or she was conceived in.
The heavy ticking of the old grandfather clock makes me nervous as I stand by the window in the hallway of Tredelerch.
I remember sitting on the lawn, heavy with child, as you pottered nearby in your beloved weather station. Looking out of the parlour window, my gaze rests on the gardens and down towards the river. The last day has come you are leaving Tredelerch. When not writing prose, Heidi writes and performs music, swims lake Zurich and fundraises for a school in Africa. Heidi completed her Masters in Creative Writing in 2018, and her first short story Changing Places was published in September of that year. She jumped at the chance to move to Paris in her twenties to learn a new language and culture.įollowing the arrival of her first son, she moved to sunny Switzerland where she has lived ever since. Heidi Gallacher was born in London in the Sixties. Meanwhile Rebecca has found passion in another direction …Īs the past threatens to engulf her, Rebecca realises she has to make a choice: one path will save her and her family from destitution, the other path will offer her the passion she craves. Gwilym Llewellyn, Geoffrey’s trusted friend and advisor, has an emotional debt to repay to Geoffrey and meets Rebecca to offer her a solution. Geoffrey is passionate about his weather station and railways, yet little of his passion seems to filter through to his shy, naïve young wife.įollowing his tragic demise, Rebecca discovers that Geoffrey’s railroad investments have failed, leaving her penniless. Queen Victoria is on the throne and Rebecca has just married businessman and meteorologist Geoffrey de Roussier in Cardiff, Wales.
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